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Hear This From SXSW: Community Rules!

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 27, 2018 Humans crave community. That sounds obvious, but in today frenetically-paced, always plugged-in world, there are new challenges to finding the meaningful person-to-person support that drives personal and professional growth and satisfaction. Women + the Power of Community with Audrey Gelman.

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Love And Giving Aren’t Green: Startups & Corporate Social Impact

YoungUpstarts

Once a year New York City is overcome at 5 p.m. In my former life, I worked at an investment bank, where at least one day a year we were required/allowed to donate a day to “Community Teamworks,” and participate in a charitable program. By Melissa Thompson, CEO of Talk Session.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Get With The Program: 4 Ways To Power Your Virtual Workforce

YoungUpstarts

Both allow for more freedom of movement and control over personal programming. My company Fit4D , an innovative health-tech company with a patient-centered diabetes coaching program based in New York City, embraces the remote work concept. Create a structured framework to encourage communication.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. Finney connected Brooks with dozens of big players in New York City tech circles and crafted introductions for her.

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250 Developers

This is going to be BIG.

The details of exactly how this was going to happen were a bit sketchy, but having a big hairy audacious goal galvanized the innovation community into achieving something spectacular. Find a small group of technical advisors to oversee syllabus creation, program structure, etc.

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6 Steps To Creating Communities That Enable People To Achieve The Unimaginable

YoungUpstarts

by David Cordani, president and CEO, Cigna, and Dick Traum, founder and president, Achilles International. These groups are called micro communities and we believe they can also be an important conduit to reducing loneliness among both those in need of help and those lending their support. To start: 1. Define the Vision. .

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